Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 131

The commandment of the Holy Prophet,Sallallahu ʿAlayhi waalihi, about having kindness for three things
1 Ḥadīth

Ḥadīth #1

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وَ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ (صلى الله عليه وآله) قَالَ ارْحَمُوا عَزِيزاً ذَلَّ وَ غَنِيّاً افْتَقَرَ وَ عَالِماً ضَاعَ فِي زَمَانِ جُهَّالٍ.

131. And by this chain, who has narrated the following: Imam (a.s) said that: ‘The Prophet ﷺ said: ‘Be merciful towards a mighty one who has been humbled, and a rich one who has become poor, and a scholar who is wasted in the era of the ignorant ones.